Description

The Tap Lab, founded in 2009, is a mobile gaming studio based in Cambridge, MA. We aim to create the 'future of fun' with games that take full advantage of modern mobile devices. Tiny Tycoons, our location-based empire building game, uses geo data (real maps and places), GPS location, and iBeacon to bring the game to life. Our upcoming release, Bigfoot Hunter, has won multiple awards for its unique gameplay that merges augmented and virtual reality on mobile.

History

History

Co-founders, Dave Bisceglia and Ralph Shao, started to experiment with mobile games driven by a player’s location in 2009 – those first few projects were sort of a test kitchen for what became our first game, Tiny Tycoons. After founding the company, they won MassChallenge in 2011 and graduated from Techstars that same year. Our Art Director, Joe Williams, made the move to Boston in 2012 and The Tap Lab quickly grew to 8 people (and one Bigfoot). We now work alongside other awesome independent game developers in Intrepid Labs, a coworking space in Cambridge, MA!